Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Green vehicle task force

The Green vehicle task force is a subpage of WP:WikiProject Environment. The task force focuses on articles about green vehicles, i.e. vehicles which are deemed to be more environmentally-friendly &mdash;notable for alternative energy, fuel efficiency, or low-carbon emissions, and vehicle articles related to conservation, pollution and renewable energy.

Those wishing to join the task force may add their usernames in the Participants section below.

Scope
See Category:Green vehicles and its sub-categories:
 * Category:Green automobiles
 * Category:Green buses
 * Category:Electric vehicles
 * Category:Flexible-fuel vehicles
 * Category:Hybrid vehicles
 * Category:Hydrogen vehicles
 * Category:Partial zero-emissions vehicles
 * Category:Super ultra-low emission vehicles
 * Category:Zero-emissions vehicles

Participants
Please add your name and say a little about your interests:
 * 1)  -- Interest in EVs, their history and how they evolved from oil burners.
 * 2)  -- Interest in alternative fuel vehicless, sustainable ethanol fuel, flexible-fuel vehicles, plug-in electric vehicles (both PHEVs and BEVs), hybrid electric vehicles, and other topics related to green vehicles in general, such us their history, environmental impact and their relationship to sustainable transport.
 * 3)  -- Not an expert on vehicles, but I'll keep POV-pushers at bay.
 * 4)   -- Interest mainly in HEVs and plug-in electric vehicles.
 * 5)  Jus  da  fax   17:10, 27 September 2012 (UTC) Interest in green vehicles in general. This topic has expanded as electric vehicles have entered the market recently.
 * 6)  -- General interest in renewable energy, transport electrification, and related fields. - Indefensible (talk) 00:17, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
 * 7)  -- I am particularly interested in electric vehicles, solar power and other subjects related to helping improve the environment. 17 November 2023

Inactive members
Members that have not contributed to Wikipedia in six months at the time the list is being updated (latest update: July 31, 2022) are listed here. Those editors returning to Wikipedia are free to reinstate their name to the active status list if desired.
 * 1)  -- Mainly interested in flexible-fuel vehicles and the commercialization of sustainable biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol.
 * 2)  (talk) 14:28, 24 January 2011 (UTC) -- Interested in bicycles and light electric vehicles (LEVs) as well as electric cars and plug-in hybrids.
 * 3)  -- interested in encyclopedic coverage of automotive topics including green vehicles.
 * 4)  -- Interest mainly in plug-in electric vehicles (both PHEVs and BEVs) and hybrid electric vehicles as a way of reducing oil consumption and air pollution.
 * 5)  -- Interest mainly in EVs, but is also interested in sustainability.
 * 6)  -- Interest in EVs, V2G, and VPP; also interested in Sustainability and Renewable energy; and was interested in Biofuel.

Articles
Our aim is to create and improve encyclopedic articles related to green vehicles.

Recognized content
These are GA and FA articles:
 * McDonald's Cycle Center
 * Chevrolet Volt (delisted 2018)
 * Ethanol fuel in Brazil
 * Flexible-fuel vehicle
 * Flexible-fuel vehicles in Brazil
 * History of ethanol fuel in Brazil
 * Indirect land use change impacts of biofuels
 * Mitsubishi i MiEV
 * Nissan Leaf
 * Plug-in electric vehicle
 * Sustainable biofuel

All articles
See Category:Green vehicle task force articles

Article templates
To indicate that an article is part of WikiProject Environment / Green vehicle task force, please insert the following template into the article's talk page:     If the article is already tagged as part of Wikiproject Environment, editors can simply insert "|green vehicle= yes" at the end of the Wikiproject Environment tag, just before the closing "}}".

The result:

Userbox templates
Feel free to add the task force user box to your user page: User Green vehicle task force

Feel free to add the renewable energy user box to your user page: User Renewable Energy

Stub templates
Note that new stub templates should be proposed before creation at WP:WSS/P.

To-do items
and Category:Environment stubs
 * Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here
 * Identify articles for creation, including new production vehicles
 * Create sections in existing articles about vehicles
 * Tag related articles (see below)
 * Identify articles for improvement and update
 * Review quality of existing articles
 * Expand any green vehicle articles in Category:Electric vehicle stubs
 * Key articles in need of improvement: Green vehicle and Alternative fuel vehicle
 * Create Green vehicle article template. What Green related sections should be in there and in what order (air pollution, fuel or energy economy, reliability, sales)
 * Discuss which non-dedicated green vehicles need their own articles (for example Ford Escape Hybrid?, Toyota Camry Hybrid?)
 * Extract content for articles from Wikinews:Portal:Transport and Wikinews:Portal:Category:Transport

Resources

 * Wikiproject Environment Watchlist
 * http://www.ev-info.com

Related WikiProjects and Portals
Portals:
 * Environment Portal
 * Global warming Portal
 * Renewable energy Portal
 * Sustainable Development Portal (Portal deleted Aug. 2019 per this MfD nomination)

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